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Monday, July 2, 2007

Battle of the Sexes - Laundry Edition

(or, Men are from Mars, where evidently they don’t do laundry)

“After enlightenment, the laundry”Zen Proverb

Female MethodMom (aka ‘the laundress’) announces to the family that she’s going to be washing a load of light-colored clothes and asks for additional dirty items to make a full load.

Despite hearing strong denials that any additional dirty clothing exists, she manages to fill at least half a laundry basket with additional items. She proceeds to start the laundry, adjusting the water and soap levels as necessary.

Male MethodDad, to self: “hmmm, these three shirts need to be washed.” He proceeds to the laundry room and places only the three shirts in the washer (despite overflowing laundry hamper immediately beside washing machine), adds a full scoop of laundry soap and leaves the water setting on “High.”

8 comments:

The men do it on purpose so that the woman will bustle in saying "no no, let me do that" because by her standards he's doing it wrong. Same goes for housework in general...anything my husband cleans involves half a bottle of cleanser and a roll or two of paper towel, no matter how small the job! It's just a guy thing.

Oh, I think this really depends on the guy... The professor does laundry very competently, and wastes less water than I do. He also cleans bathrooms and kitchen. He doesn't notice large piles of dust bunnies and floof on the floor and never vacuums, though. We're all different in this regard. It has to do with how our moms taught to clean. The professor's mom was mostly a good teacher in that department!

However, since the professor's gone, I did the laundry responsibly on Monday as usual. I thought the dogs might appreciate it if I wore clean undies...